Teaching Students to Work Harder and Enjoy It: Practice Makes Permanent

by John Jensen

Book Overview

Teaching Students to Work Harder and Enjoy It: Practice Makes Permanent points out a single, fundamental, and easily-corrected flaw that has held back American education for nearly a century--the design of instruction to achieve familiarization instead of mastery. This book explains the psychological dynamics and methods involved in mastery, and how to apply them easily in K-12 learning. A basic insight is that once students have a correct answer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610487338
• ISBN13: 9781610487337
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher